It will sometimes happen that one god escapes the classification made by the Buddhists and slips into the fold of Shint[=o], or vice versa ; while again the label-makers and pasters—as numerous in scholastic Buddhism as in sectarian Christendom—have hard work to make the labels stick.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

I thank Heaven which inspired you with the idea of catching hold of me from behind, as I should certainly have killed you the moment I set eyes on you, and at this moment I should be the most wretched of men.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All this was true, but they laughed at him behind his back and in secret called him “Sacristan Tiago.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

My husband always said, When shall the child be born, and I shall call him by the name “Nobin Madhab” ( weeps ).
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Once near Granada, standing on a hill, I watched the blood-red sun set tempestuously over the plain; and presently in the distance the gnarled olive-trees seemed living beings, and I saw contending hosts, two ghostly armies silently battling with one another; I saw the flash of scimitars, and the gleam of standards, the whiteness of the turbans.
— from The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Doubtless this difficulty might have been avoided if Sophia could have ventured on more independent action.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

To her the disapproving look of the latter was a serious business; and if she could have done it, instead of tempting them to stay all night, she would fain have sent off the two Berties to the end of the world.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Here's to you, Uncle P., and, if people can see from the other side, how happy the knowledge that your daughter and your business are in such capable hands should make you.
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

But as I stood confronting her, something in my attitude, apparently, struck her as distinctly humorous.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

Had I been asked, I should certainly have followed the Queen; but just as the King rose, I left the room.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

And yet Mistress Stromer, of the Golden-Rose House, did differently; for when she took little Clare that was her own babe out of the water, and laid it on warm clouts on the swaddling board, she buried her face in the sweet, soft flesh, and kissed the whole of its little body all over, before and behind, from head to foot, as if it were all one sweet, rosy mouth; and they both laughed with hearty, loving merriment, as the mother pressed her lips against the babe’s white, clean skin and trumpeted till the room rang, or clasped it, wrapped in napkins to her warm breast, as if she could hug it to death.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

I used to see her goin' past from the store with a bundle as if she could hardly crawl, but I remembered how Erastus used to wait and 'tend when he couldn't hardly put one foot before the other, and I didn't go out to help her.
— from The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"It's rather curious that I haven't seen her before, as I should certainly have remembered it, though I had once or twice a deal with her father."
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss